The College English Association - Caribbean Chapter (CEA-CC) will holdtheir 2008 Spring Conference in the University of Puerto Rico-Arecibo(Puerto Rico) on the 29th of February and the 1st of March. The 2008conference will address the general topic of race and writing. We inviteproposals for 20-minute papers on any aspect of the topic, from aliterary historical, critical, theoretical, interdisciplinary or otherperspective. The proposals are not limited to English languageliterature.

The specific topics to be addressed by the conference will include butnot be limited to: Atlantic studies; race, gender, and sexuality;identity and race in Caribbean and Caribbean diasporic literature;African American and Afro-Caribbean connections; postcolonialism andCaribbean and Caribbean Diasporic writing; minority literature; PuertoRico and the Caribbean; diaspora and writing; Africana philosophy and theCaribbean; Caribbean literature and cultural studies; critical racetheory; critical legal studies and race; cultural studies and race;slavery studies; immigration and race; racialization and the body;performance studies and race; multilingualism and race.